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The 10 Most Outrageous Government Boondoggles I Ever Saw
politico ^ | 2-5-14 | TOM COBURN

Posted on 02/09/2014 9:37:31 AM PST by TurboZamboni

The Pentagon’s “Did Jesus die for Klingons too?” symposium

In 2012, we issued a report titled “Department of Everything” that showed how the Department of Defense could make cuts in “non-defense” spending – spending in DOD that has nothing to do with our national defense, which we’ve estimated totals almost $68 billion. In the report, we highlighted surprising spending on beef jerky and a smartphone add to gauge caffeine intake. Our eyebrows were also raised by a strategy planning workshop for which nearly $100,000 was allocated. One of the sessions at the symposium explored the relationship between Jesus and Klingons, the famous alien species in the Star Trek series.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: debt; deficit; klingons; spending; trillions; waste

1 posted on 02/09/2014 9:37:32 AM PST by TurboZamboni
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It would be interesting to see the expenditures of the DoD versus entitlement spending over the last four decades.


2 posted on 02/09/2014 9:39:11 AM PST by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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A Vulcan woman would never have been tricked by Satan’s obviously faulty logic, but I’m not sure about a Klingon woman. .


3 posted on 02/09/2014 9:43:19 AM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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Gee he didn’t even sneeze in the matter of Solyndra or Tesla or any of the other ‘green’ enviro insanity that have been going on


4 posted on 02/09/2014 9:59:38 AM PST by Nifster
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In the report, we highlighted surprising spending on beef jerky and a smartphone add to gauge caffeine intake.

Is it me, or is spelling and grammar going to hell these days??? EVERY single story and a HELL of a lot of responses seems to be rotten with misspellings, wrong word use, etc...

5 posted on 02/09/2014 10:11:17 AM PST by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: TurboZamboni
One of the sessions at the symposium explored the relationship between Jesus and Klingons, the famous alien species in the Star Trek series.

This is actually an interesting question if you're a Christian.

Is Christ's sacrifice only valid to redeem Terran humanity, or does it apply throughout the Universe? If not, does Christ have to be sacrificed on every planet where intelligent life is found? Or have some of them not Fallen and require no Savior?

Of course, if you reject the possibility of intelligent life anywhere else, the issue doesn't arise. At least until First Contact.

6 posted on 02/09/2014 10:57:48 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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